Tonight at the Game Awards, we finally got a first look at Capcom and Paramount Pictures’ upcoming Street Fighter film, which wasted no time getting down to all the action.
While there may have been some reservations about whether a live-action Street Fighter movie would have the juice to look the part without coming off as too goofy to be legitimately hype, we have to admit, it certainly shut us up a little bit. The trailer was a mile a minute, referencing while showing off its illustrious list of actors and wrestlers in full costumes, and dare we say they looked pretty decent for Hollywood cosplay of video game characters. The trailer itself was mostly a hodgepodge of action with very little hinting toward what its actual story might be, but it’s really there for that at the moment. Let’s watch Chun Li kick fools, Guile do his flash kick, and folks and cars alike get air-juggled.
As far as the last Street Fighter film endeavors go, those being the Jean-Claude Van Damme one and that other one about Chun Li you likely forgot about, this film definitely leaned more heavily into embracing the camp of the games’ nonstop action. Aesthetically, though, the game seems to be taking more pointers from its newest game, Street Fighter VI‘s more neon-drenched urban look. All the better to make Cody Rhode’s Guile hair look just that much more pronounced.
In case the rapid-fire role call of video game characters was too fast for you, here’s the who’s who of Street Fighter and the actors bringing them to life:
- Noah Centineo as “Ken Masters”
- Andrew Koji as “Ryu”
- Callina Liang as “Chun-Li”
- Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i as “Akuma”
- David Dastmalchian as “M. Bison”
- Cody Rhodes as “Guile”
- Andrew Schulz as “Dan Hibiki”
- Eric André as “Don Sauvage”
- Vidyut Jammwal as “Dhalsim”
- Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as “Balrog”
- Jason Momoa as “Blanka”
- Orville Peck as “Vega”
- Olivier Richters as “Zangief”
- Hirooki Goto as “E. Honda”
- Rayna Vallandingham as “Juli”
- Alexander Volkanovski as “Joe”
- Kyle Mooney as “Marvin”
- Mel Jarnson as “Cammy”
Time will tell whether the film will have a story mode as raucous as its trailer’s unbridled arcade action. But from this first look, director Kitao Sakurai definitely left a good first impression of what’s to come when the movie hits theaters in 2026.
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